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Brains in jars, Indiana Medical History Museum, 3045 W. Vermont St., Indianapolis. While disgusting and hideous and flat-out wrong, the recent thefts of similar items from the museum’s collection has given a boost to the small museum’s attendance. A 21-year-old Indianapolis man was arrested after trying to sell the brains on eBay.
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John Dillinger, deceased, Chicago, 1934. When he was buried, in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, his family was mindful of body snatchers and so had several tons of concrete dumped onto the coffin.
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President Benjamin Harrison, the only Indiana man to be elected U.S. president, had a harrowing brush with body snatchers who, in 1878, three years before Harrison’s presidency, made off with the body of Harrison’s father. Harrison personally tracked his father down to a medical school in Cincinnati.
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Body snatchers made a haphazard run on Elvis Presley’s grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in 1977. They did not succeed, but Presley’s family soon removed the body from the cemetery and brought it to Graceland, Presley’s home, which is now a museum.
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Detectives now think Charles broke into the Westside museum on multiple occasions to steal jars of human brain tissue and other human tissues, said A.J. Deer, spokesman for the Marion County prosecutor's office. The additional charges are two felony counts of burglary and another felony count of theft, Deer said.

Prosecutors moved forward with the new charges after detectives confirmed that a bloody fingerprint on a piece of paper found after one break-in belonged to Charles, Deer said.

Deer said a buyer of items sold on eBay contacted authorities after reading stories about similar items determined to be stolen from the Indiana Medical History Museum.

The museum, 3045 W. Vermont St., is the site of the former Central State Hospital, which served patients with psychiatric and mental disorders from 1848 to 1994.

Charles' initial December arrest stemmed from a tip from an eBay buyer of human brains.